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by fzeroracer 2169 days ago
What the fuck? The point is that the police officers and the feds are supposed to do things by the book. They're the law. Their job is to uphold the law, and that includes how they police things. Regardless of who is contributing to an 'atmosphere of lawlessness', that does not give them carte blanche to violate the rights of citizens. Especially not when it comes to pulling people off the streets into unmarked cars and then driving away.

Why are you so dead set on downplaying this incident? How do you even know the people in the video are actually feds if they're not announcing who they are and going through proper procedures to arrest someone? What's stopping some jackass in cosplay from pulling the same stunt?

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> "What's stopping some jackass in cosplay from pulling the same stunt?"

The ultimate answer to this is; potentially being prosecuted for kidnap and impersonating police.

Most police powers boil down to exclusive legal defences that non-police can't use.

So, if you are right wing bent on kidnapping, all you have to do is join the police. Seems to be working pretty well.